Sharon Van Etten – Your Love is Killing Me

14th May 2014

So here’s the thing. Find us a more gut-wrenching female vocal performance this year than Sharon Van Etten on Your Love Is Killing Me and we’ll take this post down. The way Van Etten pours her everything into decrying a destructive relationship (“You tell me that you like it/ You love me as you torture me”) really is something to behold, and impossible to remain unaffected by. The only other people that come remotely close to this in 2014 are Lykke Li and Emma Ruth Rundle, but even then there’s something unquantifiable here that makes it quite possibly the best song of the year so far.